| Description |
1 online resource |
| Summary |
While the great Greek hero Herakles was in the underworld completing his divinely ordained labours, above ground, a rival king, Lykos, was busy plotting to murder Herakles' living mortal family. Instead, Herakles' returns just in time to kill Lykos. This is a short-lived redemption, however; after the murder of Lykos, Herakles' descends into madness and murders his own offspring, a madness initiated by an angry Hera, the goddess protector of Lykos. Only the appeal of the legendary king of Athens, Theseus, can bring Herakles back to sanity again, a sanity he reaches only to be realise his actions and be faced with a lifetime of heartbreak and an empty future ahead of him |
| Notes |
Previously issued in print: in Plays five. London: Methuen Drama, 1997 |
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Translated from the Ancient Greek |
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Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on October 28, 2013) |
| Subject |
Heracles (Greek mythological character) -- Drama.
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| Genre/Form |
Drama.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
McLeish, Kenneth, 1940-1997, translator
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Euripides.
Plays five
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